Example sentences of "i had been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been away for the weekend and David Bowie is not the most domesticated person in the world . |
| 2 | I had been away in London for the day , about three or four days after Dana 's departure . |
| 3 | The two and a half weeks I had been away from home seemed like years . |
| 4 | When I had been away , I would swear , even if I were blind , I 'd have known I was home again the moment the door was opened , from the smell of the wood-burning fire . |
| 5 | While I had been away at the Wye , the silver-grey had either moved her family to a new nest of had fallen foul of a fisherman 's trap . |
| 6 | One did not have to attend school meals with the boys over the week-end if one was off duty ; and the only master who might have noticed I had been away was Méli himself , but as it happened he 'd been in Athens . |
| 7 | All those years I had been away . |
| 8 | I felt I had been pretty severely punished by the DTI report — I had lost my job and been kicked out of an occupation which I thoroughly enjoyed . |
| 9 | I felt I had been pretty severely punished by the DTI report . |
| 10 | Within days , for instance , I 'd broken up with my girlfriend , because things came to the surface that I had been neatly burying away for years . |
| 11 | It came to me as I listened that I did n't want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment , that what I was feeling at that moment justified all I had been through , because all I had been through was my being there . |
| 12 | It came to me as I listened that I did n't want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment , that what I was feeling at that moment justified all I had been through , because all I had been through was my being there . |
| 13 | But I could still remember what I had been through as Richie Quick . |
| 14 | I had been particularly struck by William Rees-Mogg 's column in the Independent on the day after the first leadership ballot . |
| 15 | A couple of years after coming out , I met a heterosexual woman with whom I had been particularly close before I had blasted our cosy set up out of the water . |
| 16 | I had been frantically searching the garden for Toby , and found him , his head stuck through the bars unable to move . |
| 17 | I had been both committed and non-committal . |
| 18 | While I had been around , it had been easy to smooth things over , but now I was at her mercy . |
| 19 | And now that I 'd forced myself to take it all out of its cobwebby cupboard and look at it remorselessly from start to finish , I knew I had been instinctively wise not to do it before . |
| 20 | Earlier in the month I had been strongly against any idea of coalition … |
| 21 | I began to have doubts as to whether I had been right not to tell you what was going on . |
| 22 | I had been badly man-handled and beaten . |
| 23 | I told him that ever since listening to my father 's vivid descriptions of Constantinople I had always wanted to visit the city , but that I had been sadly disillusioned by the Turks I had seen on my way to the Embassy ; they had looked so incongruous in second-hand European clothes . |
| 24 | And now this feeling , as if I had been deftly |
| 25 | I do not really like being touched by a stranger since I had been mildly attacked as a child , but something told me this was no casual greeting . |
| 26 | I looked around at the place ; I had been here before but it had never looked so huge . |
| 27 | ‘ When I had been here about six months I became aware of certain tensions both in the diocese and amongst the Cathedral clergy , the Chapter . |
| 28 | Ever since my mother had explained to me at Culloden Moor long ago that the English and the Scots were different peoples , I had been intensely proud of my Scottish origins and of Scotland 's history as an independent nation . |
| 29 | It might have been more depressing if I had been otherwise ready to leave . |
| 30 | It had blown a gale in the early hours and I had been up with my torch at three o'clock to attend to the guy-ropes and check that the washing was still on the line : it was , but it had become red with dust . |